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THE ABSOLUTE GALOIS GROUP of a P-ADIC NUMBER FIELD Astérisque JÜRGEN NEUKIRCH The absolute Galois group of a p-adic number field Astérisque, tome 94 (1982), p. 153-164 <http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AST_1982__94__153_0> © Société mathématique de France, 1982, tous droits réservés. L’accès aux archives de la collection « Astérisque » (http://smf4.emath.fr/ Publications/Asterisque/) implique l’accord avec les conditions générales d’uti- lisation (http://www.numdam.org/conditions). Toute utilisation commerciale ou impression systématique est constitutive d’une infraction pénale. Toute copie ou impression de ce fichier doit contenir la présente mention de copyright. Article numérisé dans le cadre du programme Numérisation de documents anciens mathématiques http://www.numdam.org/ THE ABSOLUTE GALOIS GROUP OF A p-ADIC NUMBER FIELD by Jürgen NEUKIRCH This is a report on the work of U. Jannsen and K. Wingberg on the explicit determination of the absolute galois group G^ of a p-adic number field k ([5] , [6], [10] ). This description depends upon four invariants q, n, p , a of k which are defined as follows. Let k and k be the algebraic closure and the maximal tamely ramified ex­ tension of k respectively. As is well known the galois group 9 = G(ktrlk) -1 q is generated by two elements a , T satisfying the relation a T a = T . We put n = [k : Q ] P q = cardinality of the residue class field of k , pS = j/ji _(j.s , (j.s being the group of p-power roots of unity in kt r . a : <J -» (Z/ps) the character given by p£=£vp\p€Q,e€u. PS a can also be replaced by two numbers g , h£ such that g = a(a) , h= a(t) mod ps . With these invariants and under the assumption p/ 2 the main result of Jannsen and Wingberg can be formulated as follows. 153 J. NEUKIRCH THEOREM. - The absolute galois group = G(k|k) is isomorphic to the pro- finite group of n+ 3 generators a » T , x , ... ,x and the following defining re­ lations A. - The normal subgroup generated by x^, ... , is a pro-p-group. B. - CJTCT * = rq (the "tame relation") C. - There is only one additional relation, namely CTXoa~1=(VT)8xl CV^V*^- Cxn-l'Xn] if n is even, and 1 s axQa — =(XQ,T1 ) gxt p[x1,y ] .[x2,x3] ... [xn_1 , xn] if n is odd. Here we have put , , , h1"1 hp"2 h (x,T)=(o x o TXo T...Xo T') , where TT is the element in Z with nl = Zp . Remarks. - The condition A can easily be replaced by a collection of relations and expresses together with B the selfunder-standing relations in G^ . For the exact definition of the element y occurring in the case of odd n we refer to the original paper [6] . It is of type x^a ' T^ . If for example k|k is re­ placed by the maximal extension of k(|a ) of odd ramification, then we can take y = V The proof of the theorem is based on the following method. For each finite normal subextension K|k of k^l k the galois group of the maximal p-extension K(p) JK has the structure of a Demus'kin group, given by class field theory. Moreover, a detailed study of the action of the group G = G(K|k) on the group of units of K gives further information on the Demuskin structure under the G-action. These known properties of G^ are now taken as axioms for a new abstract concept, the concept of a "Demuskin formation", which goes already back to Koch [9], and which I therefore would like to call a Koch group over Q . Each such Koch group is endowed with invariants q, n, p , a . In a first step it is proved that two Koch groups with the same invariants are isomorphic. Hereafter Jannsen and Wingberg show, that the abstract pro-finite 154 THE ABSOLUTE GALOIS GROUP OF A p-ADIC NUMBER FIELD group, defined by the generators and relations given in the theorem, is a Koch group with the same invariants as the Koch group and is thus isomorphic to C^. We now explain this procedure in more detail by looking at the following diagram of fields and galois groups. x G K pro-p k K ktr k x K(p) Here K is an open normal subgroup of (J = G(ktr(k) contained in the kernel of a , so that \d is contained in the fixed field K of K . G =Q/K = G(KJk), X^ = G(k|K) an<? X^, is the galois group of the maximal p-extension K(p)| K . It is the maximal pro-p-factorgroup of X^ and is a Demuskin group. For these groups we have the following known properties. I. - dim H1(XK;, IF ) = n . # G+2 , dim , IF ) = 1 and H1(XK • V * R1(XK ' ^ H2(XK • V is a non degenerate anti-symmetric bilinear form. II. - Viewing H*(3C,IFp) as a 1-dimensional subspace of the symplectic space H^fX-J-v , IFp ) we have an isomorphism of G-modules HV.IF ^/H^X.lF )ss IFP[G]N. With respect to the induced non-degenerate bilinear form this G-module is hyper­ bolic, i. e. , direct sum of two totally isotropic G-submodules. III. - (X*b) 2! M as a G-module. V K 'tor ^ s P Explanation. - Condition I expresses the well known fact that X = Gal(K(p)|K) is a Demuskin group. By class field theory H^X^.IF ) is dual to K*/K*P= (n) /(TT*)* U1/(U1)* where rr is a prime element of k and the group of principal units of K . In this interpretation the cup product goes over into the Hilbert symbol on K*/K*P and U1/(U1)P contains H^K, IFp)"L/H1(3C, IFp) as a subspace of co- 155 J. NEUKIRCH dimension 1 which is isomorphic to IF [G] . The last isomorphism is a result of Iwasawa. The assertion on the hyperbolic property is due to Koch. Taking the conditions I, II, III as axioms we come to the following abstract de­ finition. Let Q be any profinite group generated by two elements a , T such that ax a and let a : Q -» (Z/ps)* be a character. DEFINITION. - A Koch group over (J (D emu skin formation in Jannsen's and Wingberg's terminology) of degree n , of torsion ps and character a » is a pro-finite group X together with a surjective homomorphism $ : X -> Q such that for each open normal subgroup K of Q in the kernel of a , the condi­ tions I, II, III hold for X. = $ *(K) , where in III (j. is replaced by the twisted Q -module Z/p (a). For these Koch groups we have now the following uniqueness theorem, which was announced by Koch [9] and was proved in full detail and even larger generality by Wingberg [10] . THEOREM I (Koch, Wingberg) . - Two Koch groups X and Y over (J with the same invariants n , ps and a are isomorphic. We indicate the concrete ideas of the proof, by sticking to the field theoretic situa­ tion and taking for X the Koch group . The problem is roughly speaking, to reconstruct G^ purely by means of the axioms I, II, III. We look again at the diagram x X k G z -k ktr K. 1 3qa K(p) . The inserted field Ki is explained in a moment. Since Gal(k|ktr) is a pro-p- group it is clear that k = (J K(p) and hence KSk tr= lim Gal (K(p)| k). 156 THE ABSOLUTE GALOIS GROUP OF A p-ADIC NUMBER FIELD This reduces us to the question, in which way the group Gal(K(p) | k) is deter­ mined by the axioms. To attack this problem we look at the group extension 1 —• Gal(K(p) |K) —• Gal(K(p) |k) —• G—> 1 and we filter the Demuskin group = Gal(K(p) JK) by its central series X^ = X_ , X_ = [ XL~ , X ] . (X^, )P . The field K. in the above diagram is the fixed field of X* , i.e. K.| K. is i JC i l -1 the maximal abelian extension of exponent p s . We now obtain the group extensions 1—• Gal(K.|K) > Gal(K.|k)—> G —• 1 . Since Gal(K(p)|k) = lim Gal(Kjk) we are reduced to the question, how to obtain the group Gal(K.|k) by using only the axioms. This is achieved in successive steps i= 1, 2, ... To mention one surprinsing fact in advance : It suffices to look only at the cases i=l,2 . Once for these cases the group Gal(K.|k) is deter­ mined by the axioms it is automatically determined for all i . In the case i=l we have to characterize the group G(Kj|K) as a G-module by the axiorrts and to determine the cocycle of the group extension in H2(G, G(KJK)) . Now G(KjK) is dual to H1(X_.,^/pS) and we have seen in the explanation following the axioms I, II, III that this group is very close to the G-module H1 (K , Z./p8)±/H1(3C , ^/pS) ^ Z/pS[G] . With few additional inves­ tigations this gives the G-structure of G(K1 |K) . For the further developments however this is not enough. For example, one has to determine H ( X__ , JZ/p ) not only as a G-module but moreover as a symplectic G-module by means of axiom II.
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